Srinagar, June 19 -- In continuation of its drug free Jammu and Kashmir campaign, Police have arrested one alleged drug peddler in Pulwama district, and attached a vehicle of a drug peddler worth Rs.3.50 lakh under the NDPS Act in Ganderbal.

Officials said that J&K Police achieved a major success in separate anti-narcotics operations conducted in Tral, Pulwama and Ashmuqam, Anantnag areas, resulting in the arrest of one drug peddler and seizure of over 7 kilograms of poppy straw.

"In the first operation, a police party of PS Tral, intercepted one individual identified as Mohd Sultan Sofi , of Dadasara, Tral. During the search, 1 kilogram and 165 grams of poppy straw was recovered from his possession," a police spokesperson said.

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